Instoremedia Profit Analysis and Technology

This assignment delves into the financial performance of Instoremedia, analyzing its profit trends over a specific period. It examines factors influencing profitability, including operational costs and revenue streams. The analysis also explores Instoremedia's adoption of technologies like RFID, cloud hosting, and digital signage to enhance business processes and customer experience. Finally, it identifies potential areas for improvement and suggests strategies to optimize profitability.

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Table of Contents
Task 1.........................................................................................................................................2
Normal view...........................................................................................................................2
Formula view.........................................................................................................................3
Pie chart..................................................................................................................................4
Task 2.........................................................................................................................................5
1.0 Introduction..........................................................................................................................5
2.0 Presentation and explanation of the business data...............................................................5
3.0 The benefits of Microsoft Office to business productivity..................................................8
3.1 Microsoft Excel...........................................................................................................8
3.2 Skype................................................................................................................................8
3.3 Power point......................................................................................................................9
4.0 Technological advancements for business.........................................................................10
4.1 Technology advancement 1............................................................................................10
4.2 Technology advancement 2............................................................................................10
4.3 Technology advancement 3............................................................................................11
5.0 Conclusion..........................................................................................................................11
6.0 Reference list......................................................................................................................13

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Task 1
Normal view

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Formula view

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Pie chart
£129,480.00 £230,740.0
0
£232,400.0
0
£258,960.0
0
£194,220.0
0£164,340.00
£185,090.00
£156,870.0
0
£162,680.0
0
£147,740.0
0
£219,950.0
0
£240,700.00
Revenue / Month after VAT
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

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Task 2
1.0 Introduction
Using the technology for the purpose of business will definitely contribute to the
productivity and strategic goals of the business. Business organizations can use various tools
like Microsoft office to overcome various challenges. The main objective of this report is to
focus on the usages of the Microsoft office and how it can be used to increase the
productivity of Marks & Spencer (Kolluri, Panik and Singamsetti 2016). This report will also
state about the technological advancement that is currently taking place at the company with
regard to the software and the hardware. Finally the report will summarise the conclusion
based on the report.
2.0 Presentation and explanation of the business data
Financial position – Normal view

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Financial position – Formula view

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Looking at the above tables for the profitability of the company for the year 2016, it
can be identified that the 17% VAT is applicable on the revenue of the company. Further, the
highest amount of profit was earned during the month of April and the amount was £ 258,
960 after charging the VAT and the lowest amount of profit generated from the month of
January and the amount was £ 129,480. Further, it is identified that after till the month of
April the profit after VAT for the company was in increasing trend and till august it was in
decreasing trend. However, the company was able to recover from the position and again
increases its profit during November and December. It was found from the revenue report
that the out of the total 12 months, for 5 months the company could earned profit more than £
200,000 and for the rest 7 months the profit after VAT were less than £ 200,000
(Marksandspencer.com 2017).

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3.0 The benefits of Microsoft Office to business productivity
Microsoft office is the desktop suite for productivity application specially designed
for using in the business purposes. It includes Power point, Word, Excel and OneDrive
365TM. The companies like Marks & Spencer face continuous challenges to increase their
productivity and develop the competitive advantages (Campbell et al. 2016). New
technologies present the opportunities for improving the key business procedures and earn
greater amount of revenue. Microsoft developed various advanced innovations that can be
used to improve the security, collaboration and communication of the data. Apart from this,
the emerging solutions of Microsoft enhance the integration that helps the company to realize
higher efficiency levels. Other uses of Microsoft office for increasing the productivity are as
follows –
3.1 Microsoft Excel
Marks & Spencer can implement the solutions for extensive technologies for
restricting the external access to the environment. However, only this will not assist in
keeping the internal employees from leaking the information inadvertently. The Microsoft
Office 365TM scans the sensitive data of the company that are transmitted and involves the
protective measures which can decrease the chances of the sensitive information to fall in the
wrong hands. Apart from this, the solutions from Microsoft assist the company to understand
the location where the intellectual property and the data reside. Apart from this, the
employees can utilise the OneDrive for the purpose of business in conjunction with the Excel
for the purpose of business collaboration on the project or document from various geographic
locations.
3.2 Skype
The companies generally face difficulties while managing different employee
platforms that are used for various types of communications. Various organizations use the

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Skype from Microsoft to message instantly, sharing the screen, audio and video conferencing
over internet for the purpose of business. However, Skype also provides the traditional form
of PSTN (public switched telephone network) calling as the add-on to existing platform
which in turn creates the comprehensive suits to encompass all the communication
requirement of the organization. Calls over Skype for the purpose of business no longer
require the internet connection and for using the conventional phone numbers enhances the
call reliability and quality. This platform also involves the routing of calls, for instance,
Skype can be used to direct the calls to the cell phones of the employees, if required. Newly
introduced OneDrive and SharePoint help in managing the information and Business scan in
an organization (Larson and Gray 2013). On the other hand, Azure Management
Management Solutions assists the companies tagging the corporate data within OneDrive and
SharePoint. Further, the software has the capability to restrict the access to the files to a
certain locations and track where and when the document files are opened.
3.3 Power point
Adopting the emerging technologies of Microsoft like Power Point enhances the
efficiencies through improved visibility and integration. For instance, a dynamics power
point presentation and Microsoft Outlook deployment significantly enhance the efficiencies
and integration. Further, through the power point presentation the user can include the charts,
videos, graphs, animations, pictures, shapes and much more to present their power point
slides (Chong, Wong and Wang 2014). However, the organizations shall evaluate the
technology solutions periodically for determining the location where they can improve the
efficiencies and the find the way in which the Microsoft Solutions can help.

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4.0 Technological advancements for business
4.1 Technology advancement 1
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology - Recently, the company started the
largest in-store trial for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in UK. RFID uses
the microchips for transmitting the serial numbers to the reading device wirelessly without
the human intervention. This allows the tracking of goods electronically with the supply
chain to the sales point from the warehouse. The 4 weeks trial for RFID started by the
company in their High Wycombe store will involve 15000 suits for men, ties and shirts with
high level of frequency at RFID devices that the retailers call as the intelligent labels. A
similar gateway like the device of metal detector is installed at distribution centre and in
loading bay of store that allows the hanging garments trolleys and rails to contain the
packaged garments to push through and read (Sharda et al. 2017). Through electronic check
of the merchandise before its loading in the lorry while it is entered in the shop floor and
store, Marks & Spencer gets the accurate picture for the stock levels.
4.2 Technology advancement 2
Modernize the diverse applications and provides the Single-point HR solutions – the rich
domain expertise in the technology and retail sector, partnered with TCS, Marks & Spencer
deploy the host of the new features of HR. They upgraded the Oracle People Soft human
Capital Management System and installed the dynamic portal that is known as People Soft
Interaction Hub that acted as the gateway for various HR applications (Anderson, Sweeney
and Williams 2014). All the HR functionalities were implemented through user-friendly and
convenient features of single sign-on. The employees from Marks & Spencer now are able to
manage and view the relevant information of HR and the personal data related to HR easily.
Through incorporation of the reporting features of Oracle Business Intelligence, the company
can publish the reports related to HR data directly on the standardized portal. The company y

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was also able to remove the cost-prohibitive and complex customization through mapping the
business requirements and applying the best practices in the industry. This solution assisted
the company’s HR operations to evolve with efficient, faster systems and improvements of
the data processing (Andrews, West and Dark 2014). It further improved the experience of
the users and enabled decision making at the high level with comprehensive and dynamic
intelligence reports of the business.
4.3 Technology advancement 3
Digital signage – the installation of digital signage allowed the encompassing of all the
outlets throughout the world that features the 4K video walls, HD screens and the interactive
displays that face both the staffs and customers. The Instoremedia powered digital signage
assist in the interface of digital signage and its features includes the modular CMS with Meta-
data rules and playlists based scheduling, remote management of hardware (Vermaat et al.
2016). Further, the scheduling protocol deploys the content to make it exceptionally efficient
and manage it easily. High system integration level enables the company to monitor the
system from one to another end within the interface of the use using the minimal resources.
Further, the system hosted in the customers data centre and as this was a crucial feature, the
Instoremedia also has the option of cloud hosting for those who are in need (Parsons et al.
2016).
5.0 Conclusion
It can be concluded from the above analysis that till the month of April the profit after
VAT for the company was in increasing trend and till august it was in decreasing trend.
However, the company was able to increases its profits again during November and
December. Further, it was found that the out of the total 12 months in 2016, the company
could earned profit for 5 months amounting to more than £ 200,000 and for the rest 7 months

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the profit after VAT were less than £ 200,000. Further, the MS Excel, MS Skype and MS
Power Point can be used by the company to solve various data related issues and increase the
profitability. During the recent period the company implement various technological
advancements like Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, Single-point HR
solutions and Digital signage to improve the business processes.

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6.0 Reference list
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Andrews, J., West, J. and Dark, J., 2014. myitlab with Pearson eText--Access Card--for Jump
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Chong, H.Y., Wong, J.S. and Wang, X., 2014. An explanatory case study on cloud
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Kolluri, B., Panik, M.J. and Singamsetti, R.N., 2016. Introduction to Quantitative Methods in
Business: With Applications Using Microsoft Office Excel.
Larson, E.W. and Gray, C., 2013. Project Management: The Managerial Process with MS
Project. McGraw-Hill.
Marksandspencer.com. 2017. Welcome to Marks & Spencer. [online] Available at:
http://www.marksandspencer.com/ [Accessed 6 Nov. 2017].
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